Chief Legal Officer at Reddit
Reddit's Chief Legal Officer quoted defending the lawsuit and explaining why Reddit is a prime scraping target.
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Reddit sued Perplexity AI and three data-scraping companies for industrial-scale unauthorized scraping of user comments to train AI models, marking the second major legal action against an AI company for data theft.
“Reddit's Chief Legal Officer quoted defending the lawsuit and explaining why Reddit is a prime scraping target.”
Reddit is suing Perplexity and data scraping services for illegally circumventing content protections to feed AI training, while competitors like OpenAI and Google pay for licensing agreements.
“Reddit's Chief Legal Officer quoted discussing the data scraping crisis and AI companies' demand for training content.”